Description
Wellington Management is seeking an investment professional with strong analytical skills and a passion for equity markets to join its Equity Portfolio Management team.
The team manages investments in Chinese equities, including China-focused strategies and broader Emerging Markets strategies. The team's investment philosophy is based on investing long-term in high-quality companies with strong organic growth and good governance standards that are under-appreciated by the market.
The successful candidate will focus on identifying quality businesses across the greater China equity markets using a fundamentally driven and deeply analytical approach. Fluency in Mandarin (written and spoken) is essential, along with demonstrated experience and skill in researching and investing in Chinese companies.
Essential Skills:
- Investment acumen and passion – The investor will have a good understanding of the China equity market, identify mispricing and valuation discrepancies, make investment recommendations, and communicate findings to China Equity portfolio management teams as well as emerging markets and global equity PMs.
- Superior collaboration and influencing skills – The successful candidate will enjoy being an individual contributor within a highly collaborative team and build strong trusting relationships internally and externally.
- Growth mindset – The flexibility and openness to continue learning, evolving, and growing as an investor is required.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in an investment analyst role with demonstrated success;
- Extensive experience in Chinese equities and/or Asian equities with a strong track record of impactful research and generating alpha;
- Written and spoken business Mandarin skills;
- Philosophical alignment with the team’s approach;
- Ability to approach research from a top-down and bottom-up perspective;
- Independence of thought and curiosity about the world;
- Self-awareness and self-confidence to be comfortable “being wrong;”
- Strong work ethic and attention to detail;
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience in a collaborative, team-based, results-oriented environment; and
- Strong academic credentials, MBA/CFA preferred.
Work Environment:
- The role is located in Hong Kong.
- Employees work from offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week.